Passenger Overboard From Seven Seas Mariner

A cruise passenger reportedly went overboard early this morning from the Seven Seas Mariner.  The cruise ship was returning, eventually, to Vancouver from a cruise to ports in Alaska. The ship was sailing to Victoria on the 10th day of an 11-day Alaska cruise which began in Vancouver on June 30th.  The cruise ship apparently first realized that the passenger had gone overboard when the ship was just north of Cape Flattery, at the northwestern tip of Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula. The captain of the cruise ship reportedly told the Coast Guard that video footage showed a passenger jumping into the sea from an eighth-deck balcony at 4:15 a.m.  AIS data shows that the cruise ship has turned around and has sailed to the northwest apparently in search for the overboard passenger. Shortly after releasing information about how the passenger went overboard, the Coast Guard in the Pacific Northwest district in the tweeted: "In previous post, the…

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